COVINGTON v. MCIC, INC.

No. 14-2055.

LISA COVINGTON, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Otis Garnes, Deceased; MARQUISE GARNES; JOYCE GARNES; MARVIN GARNES; ARNETTA HUDSON; DELORSE ALCINDOR; LINDA EDWARDS, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and OTIS GARNES, Plaintiff, v. MCIC, INC., Its Remaining Director Trustees, Robert I. McCormick, Elizabeth McCormick and Patricia Schunk; GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY; WALLACE & GALE ASBESTOS SETTLEMENT TRUST, Successor to the Wallace & Gale Company; SB DECKING, INC.; WAYNE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Defendants-Appellees, and OWENS-ILLINOIS GLASS CO., f/k/a Owens-Illinois, Incorporated; DURABLA MANUFACTURING COMPANY; UNIVERSAL REFRACTORIES COMPANY; SELBY, BATTERSBY & COMPANY; A.W. CHESTERTON COMPANY; CBS CORPORATION, f/k/a Westinghouse and B. F. Sturtevant; PREMIER REFRACTORIES, f/k/a J.H. France Refractories Company; THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO.; RHI REFRACTORIES AMERICA, f/k/a RHI AG; METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE CO.; H.B. FULLER COMPANY, f/k/a Amchem Products, Inc., f/k/a Benjamin Foster; INTERNATIONAL PAPER CORPORATION, f/k/a Champion International Corporation, f/k/a U.S. Plywood Corp. & Champion Papers, Inc.; COOPER INDUSTRIES, INC., Individually and as Successors in Interest to Crouse Hinds Co; UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION; FERRO ENGINEERING, Division of Oglebay Norton Co.; FOSECO, INC.; GARLOCK SEALING TECHNOLOGIES LLC; SQUARE D COMPANY, Individually and as Successor in Interest to Electric Controller and Manufacturing Co; GREEN, TWEED & CO., Individually and as Successor in Interest to Palmetto Inc.; E.L. STEBBING & CO., INC.; HAMPSHIRE INDUSTRIES, INC., f/k/a John H. Hampshire Company; CERTAINTEED CORPORATION, Individually and as Successor to Bestwall Gypsum Co.; KAISER GYPSUM COMPANY, INC.; BAYER CROPSCIENCE, INC., Individually and as Successor In Interest to Benjamin Foster Co., Amchem Products, Inc. H.B. Fuller Co., Aventis Cropscience USA, Inc., Rhone-Poulenc AG Company, Inc., Rhone-Poulenc, Inc. and Rhodia, Inc.; PFIZER CORPORATION; GENERAL REFRACTORIES COMPANY; KOPPERS COMPANY, INC.; HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL, INC., f/k/a Allied Signal, Inc., Successor to Bendix Corporation; DITCH BOWERS & TAYLOR, INC.; TPC CORP., Individually and as Successor in Interest to Wareheim Air Brakes; WAREHEIM AIR BRAKES, INC.; WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION; PNEUMO-ABEX CORPORATION, Successor in Interest to Abex Corporation; GL&V DORR-OLIVER INCORPORATED, Individually and/or as Successors in Interest to Keeler Boiler Works and Dorr-Oliver Boiler Co.; AMERICAN STANDARD, INC., Individually and as Succesor in Interest to Kewanee Boiler Manufacturing Co., Westinghouse Air Brake Company and Union Switch & Signal; CRANE CO., Individually and as Successor-in-Interest to Chapman Valve Co., Deming Pumps, Cochrane Corp., Cochrane, Inc., Crane Pumps and Pacific Steel Boiler Co; GEORGIA PACIFIC CORPORATION; UNIROYAL, INC.; AMCHEM PRODUCTS, INC.; ANCHOR PACKING COMPANY; ALLITE GASKETS; FLEXITALLIC GASKET CO., INC.; MELRATH GASKET, INC.; PARAMOUNT PACKING & RUBBER CO.; PHELPS PACKING & RUBBER CO.; WORTHINGTON PUMP, INC., f/k/a Dresser Pump Division; WAYNE MANUFACTURING CORPORATION; DANA CORPORATION; BABCOCK & WILCOX COMPANY; CROKER, INCORPORATED; NATIONAL GYPSUM COMPANY; QUIGLEY COMPANY, INC., a Subsidiary of Pfizer, Inc.; WARREN PUMPS, INC.; ALFA LAVAL, INC., Individually and as Successor-in-Interest to Sharples, Inc., Alfa Laval Separation, Inc. and DeLaval Separator Co.; ALLIS CHALMERS; DRESSER-RAND CO., f/k/a Terry Turbines, Individually and as Parent Corporation and Successor-in-Interest to Terry Steam Turbines; FMC CORPORATION, individually and Successor-in-Interest to Peerless Pumps and Stearns Electric Co.; I.M.O. INDUSTRIES, INC., f/k/a DeLaval Turbine, Inc., f/k/a Delaval, Inc., f/k/a IMP Delaval, Inc., Individually and as Successor-in-Interest to DeLaval Turbine, Inc. and Warren Pumps, Inc; MCGRAW EDISON COMPANY, Individually and as Successor-in-Interest to Worthington Pumps, Worthington Pumps, Inc. and Turbodyne Corp.; FOSTER WHEELER LLC; FOSTER WHEELER ENERGY CORPORATION; HOPEMAN BROTHERS, INC., Defendants, v. JOHN CRANE INCORPORATED, Third Party Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: January 5, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Harry Goldman, Jr. , Robert Gordon Skeen , SKEEN, GOLDMAN, LLP, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellants.

Mitchell Y. Mirviss , VENABLE LLP, Baltimore, Maryland; David William Allen , GOODELL, DEVRIES, LEECH & DANN, LLP, Baltimore, Maryland; Frank Ford Loker, Jr. , MILES & STOCKBRIDGE, P.C., Baltimore, Maryland; Louis Eberhardt Grenzer, Jr. , BODIE, DOLINA, HOBBS, FRIDDELL & GRENZER, P.C, Towson, Maryland; Donald Stephen Meringer , MERINGER, ZOIS & QUIGG, LLC, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellees.

ON BRIEF: John Amato, IV , GOODMAN, MEAGHER & ENOCH, LLP, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellants.

Theodore F. Roberts , Scott M. Richmond , VENABLE LLP, Towson, Maryland; David J. Quigg , MERINGER, ZOIS & QUIGG, LLC, Baltimore, Maryland; Derek P. Roussillon , MILES & STOCKBRIDGE, P.C., Baltimore, Maryland; Terri Goldberg , Aaron L. Moore , GOODELL, DEVRIES, LEECH & DANN, LLP, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellees.

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.


UNPUBLISHED

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

The estate of Otis Garnes, along with his eight surviving children, appeal the district court's grant of summary judgment for defendants MCIC Inc. ("MCIC"), General Electric Corporation ("GE"), Wallace and Gale Asbestos...

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